Implementing Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) - 2023.2 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Design Flows Overview (UG892)

Document ID
UG892
Release Date
2023-10-18
Version
2023.2 English

Engineering change orders (ECOs) are modifications to an implemented design, with the intent to minimize impact to the original design. The Vivado Design Suite provides an ECO flow, which lets you modify an existing design checkpoint to implement changes, run reports on the changed netlist, and generate the required bitstream files.

The advantage of the ECO flow is fast turn-around time by taking advantage of the incremental place and route features of the Vivado tool. The Vivado IDE provides a predefined layout to support the ECO flow. Refer to the Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Implementation (UG904) for more information.